Nvidia releases next gen graphics teaser video

He says it's a graphics card, but we're still secretly hoping it's a puppy.

Nvidia has just released a short teaser trailer promising the launch of its new flagship graphics card on Thursday 24 March.

The video was uploaded to the company’s YouTube channel, and features Nvidia's director of technical marketing Tom Petersen showing off a large box with 'Top Secret' scrawled on the side.

He stops short of any specifics, but does reveal that Nvidia has been working on the card that is in the box for two years and that it will be the company's ‘next generation, highest performance graphics card.’

That could point to either an entirely new range of graphics cards, or an addition to Nvidia's current range that will sit above the GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB.

It's also worth checking out the screens sneakily placed behind the secretive Mr Petersen, as the graphics card pictured on them doesn't look like anything we've seen before. Having said that, it's a pretty arty shot and the screens are nearly all partly obscured, so maybe we're reading too much into it.

If we produced a teaser trailer for a new graphics card, though, we'd probably try to sneak a little Easter egg in there for the eagled-eyed viewers. Just saying.

Anyway, check out the video below and let us know your thoughts in the forums.

Originally Posted by storm20200I got all excited for a GTX680 then realised it's just gonna be a GTX580X2, boring and not interesting, certainly not a "next generation". But if it is a GTX680 I can't wait for the GTX670 :D

but it's BF3 isn't out yet. i don't want to buy 680 next month and found out it can't max BF3.

im sorry, i hope it isn't 680, i hope 680 gets released after BF3 or at same time, and i hope 680 can max BF3 at 2560 resolution. that's the only game i plan to upgrade for in the next 2 years.

but it's BF3 isn't out yet. i don't want to buy 680 next month and found out it can't max BF3. that's the only game i plan to upgrade for in the next 2 years.

My thoughts too almost sorted myself out with a 570 etc but now am moving house so it kinda postponed the whole thing. Then the BF3 trailer came out, man i`m sold, new Pc for that methinks. Still straining the **** out of my 8800gt (built for BF2) BFBC2 still looks allright on 3/4 strength sliders.
Only man that could make me change my mind on this is mr freeman if he would ever like to come out of hiding.

The card launches on March 24th at 6AM PDT. Specifications are rumored to be dual 512-core GF110 chips with 607-612MHz core clocks and 850-855MHz memory clocks for the 1.5GB per GPU of GDDR5. Physically the card is smaller than the AMD Radeon HD 6990 and features a larger centrally located axial fan.

Rumors place the price of the GeForce GTX 590 around $800USD, and performance estimates indicate more performance than the stock BIOS clocks of the AMD Radeon HD 6990, but perhaps not the OC BIOS clocks.

Leaked pictures show the card supports NVIDIA Surround without additional cards, as well

Lets face it, inside the box there is a sheet of paper, with the word 'BLUFF' written across it in green crayon. And what's with the fail attempt at an 'ammo box'. I swear to all the ****ing gods if this is another piece of crap military themed hardware in the shape of ANYTHING stupid, I will buy one and smash it the **** up on YouTube just for the sake of expressing my EXTREME dislike for such products.

I'm glad Nvidia is turning out a dual GPU card. Dual GPU's have come a long way since SLI/Crossfire first came about and a lot of the complaints against them need to get with the times, incompatability with games is far less common now. If it lets companies get more performance into the box them more power to them!

Also nice to have a dual-GPU on the green team. Now there's something to compare to so people don't start pulling out the pointless "But it's not single-GPU so it doesn't count" argument when looking at 6990 benchmarks. They still offer a certain performance at a certain price, and being on one card doesn't mean you can't compare it to two cards in SLI/CF.

The box seems shorter and squatter than I'd expect for the 'early-prototype' GTX590 pictures that are all over the web. But the screens behind seem to show something with an axial fan. So ... it's the rumoured dual GPU GTX590 with specs as above, but with mighty improved cooler.

In an alternate universe where top-tier single player games are still economical to make. Like it or no, everything's about multi-player these days and I don't think Valve can move Dr. Freeman to that sort of a format so they've decided to let him fade into the great beyond.

On Thursday 24 March I'm likely to be rather miffed that I recently took delivery of an Asus G73JH-A1 laptop(its awesome and I'd highly recommend to anyone) but I suppose its better to wait for Intel to release X68 chipset and CPU's before building new PC.

Well I guess you can bend the rules a bit with this - sure we all know it's the GTX590, but you can forgive them for saying 'next gen' because it is Nvidias first multi gpu card based on their next gen Fermi architecture - so from a G80 GTX295 to a GT110 GTX590 I would accept next gen in that context.

It could be soemthing really cool and interesting about the bridge used to control teh two gpu's, next gen lossless multi gpu - one that don't need multiple driver intro's to get 99.99% ultilisation on any game...... even in windowed mode :)

Originally Posted by maverik-sg1Well I guess you can bend the rules a bit with this - sure we all know it's the GTX590, but you can forgive them for saying 'next gen' because it is Nvidias first multi gpu card based on their next gen Fermi architecture - so from a G80 GTX295 to a GT110 GTX590 I would accept next gen in that context.

Lol, you're far more forgiving than me when it comes to marketing, Fermi hasn't been next gen for at least 6 months, but I guess it's not aimed at people like us.

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Originally Posted by Madness_3ddefinately looks like crysis 2 to me, has the same hud :-/ why are people doubting it?

Originally Posted by CanonLets face it, inside the box there is a sheet of paper, with the word 'BLUFF' written across it in green crayon. And what's with the fail attempt at an 'ammo box'. I swear to all the ****ing gods if this is another piece of crap military themed hardware in the shape of ANYTHING stupid, I will buy one and smash it the **** up on YouTube just for the sake of expressing my EXTREME dislike for such products.

Originally Posted by docodineI don't get, what's wrong with the ammo box?

Video cards and ammo boxes have nothing to do with each other.

It's just a silly marketing tool because their target audience stereotypically thinks that anything psuedo-military is the bee's knees. For people who are legitimately interested in the product it just gets in the way.

To be fair i think both Nvidia and Ati need the 28nm die shrink to give "next gen" performance, without having a stupidly high power draw and heat output.
I think the only think Nvidia are guilty of is using the "next gen" too much and using it within the same series ie "next gen" to me means 6xx series.